Is the combination of trueness and precision in one expression meaningful? on the use of total error and uncertainty in clinical chemistry

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1291-1297

  Kallner, Anders ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bias elimination; recalibration; schematic calculation; simulation

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL LABORATORY; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEASUREMENT ERROR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL BIAS; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; UNCERTAINTY; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARDS;

CHEMISTRY, CLINICAL; HUMANS; QUALITY CONTROL; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84978419573     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2015-0975     Document Type: Article

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